The Twenty-First Symposium on the Interface
Of Computing Science and Statistics

General Information
The Twenty-First Symposium on the Interface of Computing Science and
Statistics will be held at the Hyatt Orlando in Kissimmee, Florida on April
9-12, 1989. Technical sessions will begin on the morning of Monday, April 10.
The Symposium is a long-standing interdisciplinary forum focusing on the
interface between computing science and statistics. Professor John Nelder
will give the keynote address on the conference theme of statistical software
and the human interface.

In addition to the invited program, an extensive contributed paper program is
planned. Ninety-eight contributed papers have been accepted for presentation.
Conference proceedings including both invited and contributed papers will be
published.

Housing and Transportation: The Symposium will be held at the Hyatt Orlando
Convention Center and Hotel, beginning the evening of Sunday April 9 and
ending at noon on Wednesday, April 12. The Convention Center and Hotel offers
40,000 square feet of meeting space. It is two miles from Walt Disney's Magic
Kingdom and EPCOT Center and is convenient to Sea World and Cypress Gardens.
Seaworld will offer a substantial discount to symposium attendees available at
registration. The hotel has 946 guest rooms, 3 lighted tennis courts, a 1.3
mile jogging and exercise trail, 4 playgrounds, 4 wading pools, 4 adult pools
and 4 whirlpools. The room rate for a single room is $80 and for a double,
$90. Reservations can be made by calling directly (407) 396-1234. Be sure to
mention that you will be attending the Interface Symposium. The block of rooms
reserved for the Interface Symposium will be released on March 9. Please book
before then to ensure availability and rates. Airport limo service is
available from the Orlan-do Airport at a cost of $11 per person each way.

Short Courses
There are two short courses planned for Sunday, April 9.

"Managing a Large-Scale Economic and Social Database with Off-the-Shelf
Technology," 1:00-5:00 p.m., will be taught by Martin David and Thomas Flory
if there are at least ten registrations by March 1. The purpose of this
workshop is to introduce statisticians and users of larger data sets to an
information system that has been devised for the Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP). Registration fee: $100, including a printed manual.
Contact SIPP ACCESS, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 3412 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706, (608)262-6358. email: ROBBIN@WISCCDE.Bitnet

Registration and Banquet
The registration fee for members of cooperating societies is $125 and for
non-members is $140. The registration fee will include a copy of the
proceedings and admission to the opening night reception. A banquet is
planned for April 10 at 8:30 p.m. The fee of $25 is inclusive of dinner, a
show with the theme of Arabian nights and transportation. To be put on the
IFNA mailing list and/or to register, please return the attached form.

Additional Sponsorship
The IFNA has applied for support from AFOSR, ARO and NSF. The National
Security Agency has indicated plans to support Interface '89. Contingent upon
level of support from the other organizations a fund for graduate students and
young investigators will be established to support travel and per diem.
Please send in attached inquiry card for further information.

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
New Academic Appointments Scheme
Lectureships in
Applied Mathematics
and
Numerical Analysis

Applications are invited for the above posts from can-
didates qualified and keen to contribute to research in
Applied Mathematics, Applied Analysis and Numerical
Analysis.

Although the posts are to be financed under the UGC's
"New Academic Appointments Scheme", it is intended that they
should be fully established and that the appointees should
become permanent members of the academic staff. The salary
initially attached to the appointments will be at the
appropriate point on the Lecturer Grade A Scale (#9,260 -
#14,500) or Grade B Scale (#15,105 - #19,310) determined by
qualifications and experience.

Applications with curriculum vitae (6 copies or, if
posted overseas, one copy in a format suitable for photo-
copying) and the names and addresses of three referees
should be lodged with the

Personnel Officer
The University
Dundee, DDl 4HN
Scotland

by 31 March 1989. Please quote EST/6/89 for the Applied
Mathematics post and EST/7/89 for the Numerical Analysis
post.

Further details are available on e-mail by sending to
na.griffiths@na-net.stanford.edu .

The student authors of the three best papers in applied and computational
mathematics submitted to SIAM will be invited by SIAM to attend its annual
meeting in San Diego, July 17-21, 1989. Each winner will receive up to $750
to offset expenses and will be recognized at the meeting. Papers must be
singly authored to be eligible for consideration. Winners must present their
papers at the meeting to receive the awards. In submitting their work for
publication, authors are asked to consider the SIAM journals.

To qualify, authors must be students in good standing who have not received
their PhDs at the time of submission. Submissions must be received by SIAM
on or before April 1, 1989. Submissions can be sent by regular mail or FAX.
Each submission must include (1) an extended abstract (3-4 pages), double-
spaced, in English; (2) the signature of the author on the submission; (3) a
statement by the student's faculty advisor (also on the submission) that the
paper has been prepared by the author indicated and that the author is a
student in good standing; and (4) a short biography of the student.

Each submission must also include a letter of recommendation from the
student's advisor or department chair.

Submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, applicability, and
clarity of exposition.

The Deparment of Computer Science, University of Bergen, requests applications
for a position as Full Professor of Computer Science.

The department has 12 full time faculty members (6 full professors and 6
associate positions), 2 adjoint (part-time)professors and 10 research
fellowships (Ph.D. students).

The department gives courses for undergraduate as well as graduate studies.
There are two main directions of study at the advanced level, computer science
and numerical analysis and optimization (scientific computing). The department
has 55 Master degree sudents and 14 Ph.D. students.

All faculty menmbers have state of art workstations (SUN-3), the computing
environment is based on ethernet networking connected to the international
Internet (ARPA-net). The department has created a laboratory for parallel
processing (Alliant FX/8 and Intel Hypercubes) and also a laboratory for AI
research. The department will move into a new building (The High-Tech Center
of Bergen) in the spring of 1989. Several other computer science related
research groups, including IBMs Scientific Center will be located in the
same building.

The department conducts research in the following areas: In computer science:
Analysis of Algorithms, Datacommunication and Coding Theory, Artificial
Intelligence, Programming Development (Languages,specifications, verifications
and environments). In scientific computing: Numerical Integration, Numerical
solution of Partial Differential Equations, Accelleration of Convergence,
Discrete and Continuous Optimization.

There is a strong focus on the use of parallel computers in all areas of
research.

The department has both national and international cooperations with research
groups at other institutions (in particular in the United States and Europe).
Locally, we cooperate with the Christian Michelsen Research Institute and
with the IBM Bergen Scientific Center.

There are also other groups within the university doing computer science or
computer science related work (Computer Science in Social Sciences, Computer
Linguistics and Computer Psychology).

Prospective applicants should be able to teach in the department, and must have
an outstanding research record in computer science. Applicants with a documentedresearch record in analysis of algorithms, artificial intellingence or
programming development are especially invited to apply. A strong interest in
aspects of such research related to parallel computer systems will be
highly valued.

More information about the position can be obtained
from Professor Petter E. Bjorstad
by email to na.bjorstad@na-net.stanford.edu

The Householder Symposium XI on numerical algebra will be held
during the week of June 18--22, 1990 at Tylosand, Halmstad on the west
coast of Sweden. This meeting is the eleventh in a series, previously called
the Gatlinburg Symposia. It has been agreed to rename all subsequent
Gatlinburg Symposia to honor Alston S. Householder, one of the pioneers
in Numerical Linear Algebra and organizer of the first four
Gatlinburg meetings. The meeting is an international conference of experts
in the field of Numerical Algebra. The format of the meeting is a sequence of
invited papers during the day and special workshops organized by the
participants in the evening. There is no formal program, but traditionally
a few topics are emphasized. For this meeting they will be large scale
nonsymmetric linear algebra problems, least squares, and matrix inertia
and stability.

The meeting is being organized by the Householder committee, in cooperation
with the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.
Chairman of the committee for this meeting, and in charge of the
local organization is Ake Bjorck of Linkoping University, Sweden.

The traditional format of the Householder Symposia requires that
the attendence is limited. The organizing committee invites all qualified
persons to apply to attend. The application should consist of a vita and an
extended abstract (about two pages) of a paper you would present if invited to
speak. The latter will be used by the committee in planning the program.
Material should be sent before November 1, 1989 to

As many of you will know, the former International Matrix Group (IMG)
is now known as the International Linear Algebra Society.
Accordingly, IMG-NET will now be called ILAS-NET.

IMAGE #2 (January 1989) - produced by Bob Thompson and Jane Day-
has now been mailed to about 300 people who returned their coupons to
Bob. It may be a little time before it reaches people outside North
America - as it was mailed surface mail.

The production and mailing costs of IMAGE are fairly considerable-and
we have found it necessary to institute a small membership fee for
ILAS to cover these and other necessary expenses. The fee will be
$12. Fees paid in 1989 will also cover 1990, though a voluntary
contribution of $12 to cover the second year will be greatly
appreciated. Thereafter the fee will be annual. We hope all those
interested in linear algebra will join ILAS. We realize that it may
be difficult for some members to pay the fee. We will therefore waive
it upon request. Mebmbers will receive IMAGE.

If you wish to Join ILAS, please send the following form and your
membership fee (or a letter) to James R. Weaver (ILAS' treasurer).

MEMBERSHIP IN ILAS:

To: James R. Weaver
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, Florida 32514-5751
U.S.A.

NAME:

ADDRESS:

PHONE:

E-MAIL:

[ ] I wish to become a member of ILAS.
Enclosed is $12 - my membership fees
for 1989 - 1990.

[ ] I wish to become a member of ILAS.
Please waive my membership fee.

ALL CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE OUT TO:
THE INTERNATIONAL LINEAR ALGEBRA SOCIETY

INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
University of Minnesota
514 Vincent Hall
206 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

(612)624-6066 FAX (612)626-7370
ima_staff%csfsa@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu

Workshop on
MULTIDIMENSIONAL HYPERBOLIC PROBLEMS AND COMPUTATIONS

April 3-14, 1989
Organizers: James Glimm and Andrew Majda

The field of multi dimensional conservation laws is
new and ready for development. The analytic techniques
of compensated compactness, the application of geometric
optics to multidimensional shock stability, deeper
understanding of nonlinear interactions have all
been developed in the last decade. There are emerging
also powerful scientific computation methods (and machines);
higher order methods, and the new generation of front tracking
schemes have produced dramatic pictures of complex flow
dynamics.

This two-week workshop, part of the IMA 1988-89 program on
NONLINEAR WAVES, will begin with introductory lectures on
the mathematical and computational developments. The Tuesday,
April 4, program will be devoted to forward looking lectures
based on the work of Ron DiPerna and delivered by his friends.

The second week will include lectures on numerical algorithms
and results, recent results on the Boltzmann equation and
other rarefied gas dynamics models which shed light on multi-
dimensional conservation laws, and recent theoretical and
asymptotic results on multidimensional problems and models
in continuum mechanics. There will be a session on open
problems. (There will also be contributed sessions;
those who wish to contribute should submit abstracts to
the Organizers.)

The April 10-11 portion of the program is
cosponsored by the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS:Indiana University,
Iowa State University, Michigan State University,
Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University,
Ohio State University, Purdue University,
University of Chicago, University of Cincinnati,
University of Houston, University of Illinois (Chicago),
University of Illinois (Urbana), University of Iowa,
University of Michigan, University of Minnesota,
University of Notre Dame, University of Pittsburgh,
Wayne State University
PARTICIPATING CORPORATIONS:Bellcore, Cray Research,
Eastman Kodak, Honeywell, 3M

The April 3-14 Workshop on Conservation Laws at the IMA
is the first international meeting of many of Ron
DiPerna's friends and colleagues since his death. One of
the Proceedings Volumes will be dedicated to him and,
in addition, the April 4 program will be devoted to
forward-looking lectures based on his work and delivered by
his friends.

The program will be chaired by James Glimm, Ron's thesis
advisor. Speakers and their topics are:

MORNING
Constantine Dafermos Systems of Conservation Laws in a
Single Space Variable

The ``Sweatshop'' will act as a follow up to the IMA Workshop
on Multidimensional Hyperbolic Problems and Computations,
April 3-14, and will specifically focus on hyperbolic wave
theory as an aid to computation and the use of computation to
better understand hyperbolic wave theory. Rather than a lecture
format, there will be working sessions based on the computer
resources of the IMA and the Minnesota Supercomputer Center,
in particular the Cray II.

The NAS Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center has immediate
openings for highly qualified persons to participate in a research
program in scientific computation on advanced parallel computers. The
NAS organization at NASA Ames operates a state-of-the-art
supercomputer center, with a 4-processor Cray-2, an 8-processor Cray
Y-MP, a nationwide high-speed communications network, and numerous
high-performance color graphics workstations. Recently NAS, in
conjunction with DARPA, augmented its facilities by acquiring a
Connection Machine CM-2, with 32,768 processing nodes and
floating-point hardware. Later this year a high-performance MIMD
research computer system will be added to this facility.

As a part of its research effort, the Applied Research Branch of NAS
is seeking additional personnel to take the lead in working with NASA
scientists to implement some important scientific applications on the
highly parallel computer systems. Qualifications for these positions
include the following:

An advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or
engineering.

Programming experience on an advanced parallel or vector computer
system in a scientific application. Experience on a CM-2 or a MIMD
hypercube system is particularly desirable.

Published articles in parallel computing or numeric computation.

Familiarity with Fortran and the Unix operating system.

Familiarity with computational fluid dynamics or other similar
PDE applications.

Expertise in parallel languages and programming environments.

U.S. citizenship is not required, but candidates must be at least
permanent U.S. residents. Both civil service and contractor positions
are available. Interested persons should contact